Dr. Franklin received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 2008 and then spent six years on the research staff at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY. He is most widely known for his work on low-dimensional nanoelectronics with specific emphasis on carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors, including device scaling, transport studies, and advanced integration approaches. While at IBM, Dr. Franklin was involved in many other projects with applications including photovoltaics, thin-film transistors, and supercapacitors. Dr. Franklin joined the Duke faculty in 2014. Since coming to Duke, his group has made transformative advancements in the area of printed electronics, including the invention of sensors that have spurred the successful spin-out of a funded company, Tyrata, Inc. Additionally, the Franklin group has made key foundational contributions to the rapidly growing field of negative capacitance transistors, with the first demonstrations of these low-voltage devices using 2D nanomaterial channels. Dr. Franklin has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers and holds more than 50 patents.